From the desk of - your kid’s most obvious questions.

Please tell me i am not alone - my girls will hit me, outta the blue, with the most obvious questions. Often, i am shocked and want to say, “whaddya mean....?” but i try to figure out why or what had happened to make them wonder. Recently I’ve gotten 2 zingers (my girls are just about 5 1/2 yo) that just make me laugh.

Standing in our kitchen - mommy, is this our kitchen?
Me - yep, this is it
Her - why is this our kitchen?
Me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Other girl - Mommy, is Disneyland larger than an owl?
Me- an owl? Her - yes, an owl. Me - well, an owl is a bird and Disneyland is an amusement park so yep, DLand IS larger than an owl. Her - OK

I am SO (significant other) GLAD to know my child is not the only one doing this!!! She's almost 6 and has ADHD and I thought that was why she does this!! It's constant.

"Mom, is that cheese?" ...staring at cheese.
"Mom, is this our house?" ---why? You disappointed??
"Mom, is Ella wearing a diaper?" --watching her little sister toddle through in her diaper....
"Mom, is this a pencil?" Holding--and staring at--said pencil in hand.

Right now, the three year old is interested in where things come from.

Where did the moon come from? Where does milk, then cow, come from? Where did I come from? Are just a few. But the other day while she was going potty, she looked me dead in the eyes, "where does poop come from?" Then followed by a why.

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"When you were pouring the Bisquick... were you trying to make pancakes?"- Sgt. Abraham Ford

My 13 year still asks extremely obvious questions or questions she already knows the answers to because she’s asked them a hundred million times before. Lately I’m like “kid, you’re pulling A’s in AP (attachment parenting) classes at school, I know you know this one!!” She’s so smart and yet, so oblivious at times.

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